And a Dunkin Donuts, next to the Vauxhall dealership.
Stadium Plans to be unveiled by the end of the month.
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There's been fairly meaningless signs of progress all season Mystic Announcements about announcements. Anyway, no matter what it's good news.
Is the Albert that one with all the scarfs on the ceiling? - It's absolutely reeks of history that place (as well as reeking full stop!). I'm just glad the Harry is staying put 😉
I've always wondered if any of those pubs are owned just by normal everyday landlords. They must make fucking huge profits.
I think the Albert is ok-ish, at least from the little you can see of it on matchdays.
The Harry is much worse. That place is a total fucking dive.
The Harry is much worse. That place is a total fucking dive.
only on match days though. be empty ish the rest of the time
Thinking about it - I wonder what the future holds for the Harry? It's right on the edge of all those houses/streets that are going to get bulldozed.
I would guess not much will change, they may get asked to keep the frontage a helluva nicer & may even receive help doing it.
They don't. They rarely make any money apart from match days. Sunday and early morning kickoffs reduce what they make also
Be good if the Harry got a small makeover. Nothing too Laurence Llewelyn Bowen - Just a lick of paint, a scrub of the lino and maybe some Peroni on tap (with nice clean pipes). Oh and the bogs could do with an air freshener or three 😉
I was a Park man myself in the 80s. The Albert on occassion. Then Dr Duncan's in town before hitting the Sandon. Recently it was the Cabbage Hall until it burned down. Then my mate was a member of that mad men's club in that concrete bunker, can't remember the name, anyone? Last few years we've been going to Turpins. Anywhere you can take your own chips, buy dodgy DVDs and chocolate off a Chinese fella out of a black bin liner is alright with me.
Would be a great shame if we lost the Albert.
Would be a great shame if we lost the Albert.
This is also why most of the ale houses in Anfield are not the most salubrious. There's no appetite for investment as nobody uses the pubs outside of match day. Maybe a new stadium could change this.
[article=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-new-stadium-pictures-150m-3447010#ixzz2zjRSrCO8 ]These are the images that show Liverpool will finally rejoin the English football elite off the pitch as well as on it.
As boss Brendan Rodgers and his team close in on a stunning Premier League title, managing director Ian Ayre unveiled a sneak preview of the dramatic £150m remodelling of Anfield.
Liverpool will submit their plans, based on these drawings, in June, and are confident they will complete the first phase of their redevelopment by the summer of 2016, eventually allowing the club to compete financially at the top of the Premier League.
That will raise the capacity of Anfield to 53,000, and a second phase will begin soon after that will raise the number of seats to around 60,000 - and place Liverpool behind only Manchester United in terms of match-day revenues.
Ayre insisted last night not one player will be sold to pay for the development, and instead, the plans are designed to allow Rodgers to buy even more stars.
“We won’t be selling a player to pay for it. There’s never been a discussion about selling a player to pay for the stadium,” Ayre explained.
“If anything, we’re doing it to support investment in the team. Obviously, there’ll be a period where we have to pay for this thing but again it’s been designed to make this happen as quickly as possible and the core reason for doing it is to support the core finances overall.
“To compete we knew we have to progress on two fronts - that was Champions’ League and the stadium. We are now back in the Champions’ League, and we believe this is a great solution for the stadium.”
Under their new American owners, Liverpool have taken two years to find the best solution to the problem of significantly increasing capacity, and after rejecting plans to build a new stadium, they have settled on an imaginative rebuild of Anfield.
The architects KSS have produced plans that will essentially build new tiers on top of the existing main stand, and have found a way to complete construction WITHOUT any reduction in capacity while work is underway.
And Ayre believes staying at Anfield will mean revenues eventually exceed the likes of Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea, without placing the club under the sort of debts the Gunners suffered with their costly Emirates build.
The entire redevelopment will cost around £150m, less than a third of the cost of a new stadium but delivering a similar capacity, and he said:
“I can’t comment on Arsenal but we’ve found a solution that had a return on investment as quickly as possible - there’s no point investing hundreds of millions of pounds if it just burdens you with debt that prevents you from being able to invest in the team.
“That wouldn’t be helping you; it’d actually be hindering you. That’s why £600-700m stadiums don’t work because you’re just setting yourself back rather than forward.
“This way, we can generate new revenues to invest in the club, and the ownership has proved that it has reinvested every penny back into the football club and into the team.”
Liverpool currently lie fifth in the Premier League income table, with a turnover of just over £200m - which is some distance behind Manchester United’s £400m.
Manchester City are second at £300m, while Chelsea and Arsenal both generate around £280m a year, but Liverpool believe the combination of Champions’ League football and a stadium capacity of 60,000 would catapult them above their rivals to just behind United.[/article]
Very impressive. And big.
Imagine a single tier stand that height...it would be awesome
Maybe both, I remember the HKS design of a single-tier Kop had people doubting its structural soundness.
With those two it's probably proof it is! Ha, its probably more expensive or less space efficient, curious so many places go tiered as default though.
Does it? I wouldn't know. I shop at Waitrose.
Its ace! Looks really good and they've kept the old feeling of the stadium intact imho.
Could we expand the Kop end or is that impossible?
Re multie tier stadiums. The VIP sections and boxes are were the real income are I guess. There are now 2 sections of those in the main stand.
Could we expand the Kop end or is that impossible?
Re multie tier stadiums. The VIP sections and boxes are were the real income are I guess. There are now 2 sections of those in the main stand.
Is that The Albert there on the right of @King Binny 1st picture?
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